Weather of the Mind

Episode #113 Original Air Date: 10 September 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 11 minutes An addendum to the last episode on Experiments.  In this episode I more explicitly encourage the listener to design one's own experiments! Embark! Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #112 Original Air Date: 27 August 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 28 minutes What is the nature of experiment in our lives?  How does experiment help our local culture evolve, our local rituals and habits? In this episode, I explore these questions and share my recent experiment: a year without home internet. Plus, I revisit some passages from the unpublished Urbanmonks Handbook on t...

Episode #111 Original Air Date: 7 July 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 32 minutes The first Weather of the Mind cooking episode!  Learn some tips for hosting a 20 person bbq gathering featuring skewers! Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #110 Original Air Date: 5 May 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes Grab some pen and paper, for it's time to reflect on the state of play in your life. Join us for your annual play check-in, your annual play self-assessment. Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #109 Original Air Date: 3 March 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 29 minutes This episode features some stories and some reflection on the topic of Poker as it pertains to emotional health.  Over the past 7 months, I have had the opportunity to play over 50 poker sessions - mostly home games, with a few casino trips interspersed. In this episode I share what I have learned about the re...

Intro to the new season

Episode #107 Original Air Date: 13 April 2022 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 58 minutes Guest: Jake Seegers, founder of Fitquest, which combines role-playing and fitness pursuits. (contact him: fitquestgm@gmail.com) Music sample: "Flute Loop" - Beastie Boys. RIP MCA. The Weather of the Mind pod is back!  It has been a challenging winter up here in Ithaca.  More details on that in a future pod. T...

Episode #106 Original Airdate: 30 September 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes Special Episode... Please share with your nature-loving peeps... a great episode to introduce new people to this podcast... In this episode I give a tribute to a mighty white oak tree, whose massive umbrella inspired and protected my family and me for many seasons. Topics that appear in this episode includ...

Episode #105 Original Airdate: 27 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes Interview with Kaylea Forsythe.  Part II. We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender a foundational shift in emotional health. Tune in! References: Root Bound.  Essay by Kaylea Forsythe. 2021. https://vocal.media/journal/root-bound

Episode #104 Original Airdate: 5 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 minutes Interview with Kaylea Forsythe.  Part I of II. We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender a foundational shift in emotional health. References: Root Bound.  Essay by Kaylea Forsythe. 2021. https://vocal.media/journal/root-bound

Episode #103 Original Airdate: 13 July 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes How is your relationship to the Sun? Do you know the basics... how far away the sun is?  How large the sun is? How is your relationship to your own skin?  After all, this is the part of our bodies - along with our eyes - that interacts with the rays of the sun.  Do you understand how to protect your skin? In th...

Episode #102 Original Airdate: 11 June 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 22 minutes The pandemic is winding down in the United States. But the repercussions are rumbling... through our own selves, our towns and neighborhoods, and around the world. Even if better times are ahead of us, it seems that we are still in the midst of a lot of chaos and change. So let us explore the metaphor of the Fa...

Episode #101 Original Airdate: 7 May 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 34 minutes Weather of the Mind 101.  Past, Present and Future.  A reintroduction of sorts. Included in the 'past' section of this pod... my telling of my own "Einstein with compass moment." And as part of the 'future' section ... I read an encouraging email from a former student. Tune in!

Episode #100 Original Airdate: 1 April 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 24 minutes A celebration of sorts... where I give some thanks to a handful of friends and brainstorm pals for their support over the past 2.5 years. I posed this question to these members of my de facto board of advisors:  why does the Weather of the Mind podcast resonate with you? Insightful and encouraging answers aboun...

Episode # 099 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 March 2021 Length: 22 minutes Weather of the Mind #99 notes Einstein – Biography Review 3.16.21 In this pod I aim to provide a bit of a book review for Walter Isaacson’s Einstein. My 3rd Isaacson bio and he is a biographer that focuses on innovation. The cultural process and these transformative figures he chronicles… including Da Vinci,...

Episode # 98 Original Airdate: February 17, 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 30 minutes ((A real solid episode... much food for thought)) The key question I pose to you, the listener: Growing up, did your family have a weekly day of rest, of recharge?  Was it effective?  What were the best aspects of this day? In your life now, is there a weekly day of rest?  What is the ritual?  Is it workin...

Episode #097 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 28 January 2021 Length: 29 minutes Main topics: Two homework assignments: 1) In the trenches reflection on our times in the middle of winter of Corona II, and 2) design your own school, based on your experiences of your years of school.  If we were designing a school to help mold healthy well-rounded adults, what would the main subjects be? T...

Episode #096 Original Airdate: 31 December 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 25 minutes References: https://www.weatherofthemind.org/practical-skill-new-years-resolutions/

Episode #095 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 9 December 2020 Length: 24 What to make of these bizarre times we are living through... threats to democracy... corona times ... heading into a tough winter challenge.    

Episode #094 Original Airdate: Oct 30 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: Passages. Predictable Crises in Adult Life.  1976

Episode #93 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 October 2020 Length: 24 minutes Reference: "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" David Foster Wallace. From the book Consider the Lobster. 2006.  Originally published Aug 30, 1992.

Episode #092 Original Airdate: 1 October 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes   References: "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term planning and a willingness to reconsider long-term values.  On reflection we can recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of individual...

Episode #091 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 17 September 2020 Length: 30 minutes   References "Rastaman Vibrations" Bob Marley.  30 April 1976. "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term planning and a willingness to reconsider long-term values.  On reflection we can recognize the crucial role of t...

Episode #090 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 10 September 2020 Length: 23 minutes References David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Episode # 089 Original Airdate: 27 August 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes